T-Mobile outs retail value of Samsung Galaxy S6

T-Mobile is running a contest in the U.S. through which customers can get their hands on the upcoming Galaxy S6 for free. And as is the case for all such giveaways in the country, the carrier has listed the retail value of the handset, which is at $699. As there is no mention of a storage variant, it is possible the model listed is the 32GB variant.

That's $100 more than the $599 retail price put forth by HTC in its own giveaway of the One M9. The higher price is warranted as the Galaxy S6 boasts a QHD display, whereas the One M9 comes with a full-HD screen. There's also Samsung's brand recognition to consider, and even though the South Korean vendor is facing a sales decline of late, it sells more devices than the next four Android handset manufacturers put together.

If you're interested in taking part in T-Mobile's sweepstakes, head to the link below to register. There's the Galaxy S6, Gear S smartwatch, Gear Circle headset and a Galaxy Tab S tablet up for grabs.

$699 is nowhere near a justified price. LG and other manufacturers with comparable devices usually undercut Samsung(minus Sony they are drunk too) with pricing. Samsung is getting to be more and more like Apple with every release, hell at least Samsung hasn't released a $10,000 smartwatch.....yet anyway.

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Gotta agree with Turbowned, can't believe people are lining up to defend the potentially eye-gouging pricing on these. I could understand why the Note series costs a lot, the the S6 doesn't look like that much of a leap. For those pointing out the "SSD" storage, have you seen how much 256GB SSDs go for now? not very much! you could get two of them for the difference between 32GB & 128GB!

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Yup I'm with you. While I love the design and I'll praise them for the look and materials, the lack of SD (which drives up price for the higher storage models), and removable battery, both staples for the Galaxy series, makes it a non starter for me. The battery being built in doesn't bother me but the size does. And I do use SD cards, so while I get he pros to flash storage, I got a lot of media on my card. Both HTC and LG still offer SD expansion, and while the M9 has a built in battery, at least it's big enough to get good life out of it daily. Then there's the price. If rumors are to be believed, the S6 and edge are going to be insane price wise. I don't want to hear the "if you want 2015 specs you have to pay 2015 prices". That's garbage. The M9 is way less, and if history is any indication, the G4 will undercut the Galaxy big time. I refuse to pay for a name, and that's what this is.

Damn.. If the Edge is going to start at $799 for a 32gb model I'll have to pass.. I was about to switch from buying the Nexus 6 to the Galaxy S6 Edge... But at $800 might be too much. I'll wait for the deals when none of the sheep buy the Edge at $100 premium.

Then again, an iPhone 6 or 6 Plus has all the radios already built-in if you buy a Verizon version which is carrier unlocked. You can use it with pretty much any carrier on the planet. You cannot do that with any one version of any Samsung.

Plus, the resale value will be higher with the iPhone. Mobile phone tech changes quickly and at some point soon you will want something newer.

All this coming from a hard-core Android enthusiast. By making the Galaxy S series more like the iPhone - by stripping away features that made it more desirable than any iPhone and also raising prices - the iPhone starts looking like something to consider. Gulp.

I think less than 1% off the world cares if their phone has qhd or full HD. I think more people would prefer better battery and performance. But if the m9 camera sucks as much as people say, its still the loser.

Even more expensive than the iPhone that starts at 650 for the 16 gigabyte base and increases 100 dollars more. Hopefully it increases by 50 dollars like the Nexus 6 with 32 being 650 and 64 being 699, but I doubt that. It'll be amazing though if the starting price is the 64 gigabyte model which will be AMAZING. That'll make a 100 increase to the 128 model even better.

If this is correct it is about $50 more than the iPhone 6. I don't think many people, other than those that come on these sites, will pay more than for an iPhone. Certainly in the UK, you can get Samsung phones cheaper on contract than the equivalent iPhone.

"I don't think many people, other than those that come on these sites, will pay more than for an iPhone." This may be hard to believer but some people....some people actually WANT a samsung or android device do NOT want an iPhone. "According to analysts, Apple and Samsung each sold the same amount of smartphones, 74.5 million. " source: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/29690/20150130/apple-vs-samsung-74-mil...

i mean you gotta feel for him tho. i've been a nexus for my own reasons. but im sure the vast majority of people who have been a loyal galaxy s people were because the removable battery, sd cards or both. i mean lets be real touchwiz is nothing to be bragging about. but now they did away with it. why? to be more like apple i think. think about it. they cut back on all the models so now they have the galaxy s, note and now edge. (prolly will keep a low end around im not sure. but besides the point) they want to keep profit up. so instead of letting you buy a 16 or 32 gb and trowing in a chip. offer a 128 gb and boom 200 extra on top of the base with a 5 buck increase in costs and more people will be inclined to buy the more mem model.

Ughhhhh when will you bunch of whiny ass bitches get your heads out of your asses and wake the hell up... This move has nothing to do with Apple. Plenty of information out there to help you realize why this is better for the overall performance of the phone... You know, whenever you people decide you've had enough of bitching and crying and need a nap or something...

the end just stopped making sense. and im not a "whiny ass bitches" all i was saying was the fan base of the galaxy series loved the sd cards and removable battery. even one the biggest selling point of their last release was the battery( between swapping batteries or turning on low power mode) poking fun at iphone users huddled by outlets charging their phone. you like to believe samsung doesn't want to be like apple but what company doesnt want to be rich and successful. your looking at it like its a negative. clearly they aren't copying but if something proves successful your gonna dip your hand in that pot and see how you can get some of that gold. and lastly, the last i dont hate samsung and i dont hate apple. i dont care for samsung and i dont care for apple. funny the infant is telling me i need a nap.

Last I checked Samsung doesn't need to try to be like Apple to be "rich and successful"... They don't need to copy Apple to "reach the gold"... You don't make any fucking sense. Non of you cry baby bitches make any sense. It's always "waaaaa they're copying Apple waaaa waaaaaaa" it gets old. Grow the fuck up... Oh, and real original meme, you come up with all by yourself did ya? And I'm 29 and a marine, far from an infant... You're the only cry baby bitch ass infant I see here... Now go cry about Samsung moving with the times getting rid of removable batteries and external storage like the little bitch boy you are... Peace... Stock up on tissues.

Yea I would have liked a removable battery as well, but what can ya do. You hit it on the head with why they chose to get rid of removable storage though. I feel like people don't take the time to think things through before they bitch about shit. Aggravating.

I was hoping they'd undercut Apple at least by $50 guess not. The price isn't bad but would've been a dream for pricing to start at $600 and $650 for the lowest model. If I have to pay $800-900 for the 64GB Edge then I'd like to at least find a deal with a wireless charger bundled.

That is corrct, Verizon uses CDMA technology for their voice calls. The current line of phones on their network are world phones, which come with GSM radios. The same is true with Sprint. Only Sprint started unlocking their phones last month(Febuary 2015).

It really depends on the phone. I'm sure the S6 will be this way and support multiple frequencies CDMA and GSM alike. I'm using an iPhone 6 Plus that was originally on Verizon. I switched to straight talk and used the GSM SIM, since I like hoping between the iPhone and the OnePlus One. It pulls down LTE just fine, just switch those SIMs.

The rear...fine. I can live with that. They better not ruin the FRONT of this phone with their shit ass logo! If they do, I'm officially gone. Sick of them defacing beautiful products with their ugly logo.

That is incorrect. Att is the highest. Check the prices of a note4 off contract. And you will find Verizon and t mobile are the same price. 699.99. T mobile phones are not locked bootloader either. So even if they are a few more dollars more sometimes it's worth it. But most of the time the two are neck and neck with everyone else higher.

I figured they'd be increasing the price. I'll bet the charge $100 for each $15 flash storage chip they put in, just like Apple. Want 64GB instead? $799 please. Welcome to the world of fixed storage capacity.

It will be $199 ($649 offcontract) for the base 32 GB, $50 more for the 64 GB (both on and off) and $50 more $299 on/$749off contract for the 128 GB model. The edge version will plus $100 across the board. Personally, I have lived quite comfortably the last 3 years, would take micro SD if it had it, if not, then I would like the 64 GB model (I can use some 64 GB double sided OTG memory sticks if I need it on the go). Love the design of the S6 and just need to know if they have made their antennas better for data and calling - my S3 was not very good - HTC and LG both do much better than Samsung in this area.

Yes, part of me looks at it this way too. But then you realize that samsung upgraded to UFS 2.0 memory that not only 3x faster than standard eMMC everyone else uses, it's 28 times faster than standard ext. SD cards. As far as whether more powerful ext. storage could be used? Idk. But it'd be expensive as shit anyway.

Also, since android uses all its onboard media for caching and some apps get occasionally get swapped to ext. Storage on installation, these things cause bottlenecks in performance. Removing it creates the ultimate fluid device.

Between that, DDR4 ram, and the 14 nm exynos 7, samsung just smoked the entire industry with the S6.....for now

I actually don't use the SD card on my phone for apps. I use it for media like photos, videos and audio. They sometimes take up more space than my apps, and I'm not the kind of guy who games a lot on a phone anyway.

I know Samsung is using a new type of storage that is basically a hybrid SSD + flash storage, but I need to use it for myself before I can say whether it has any effect in real-world usage, since the phones we have now are pretty fast for their age. But it is exciting, minus the bitter taste that still remains in my mouth.

Actually, that nearly happened. On our S3, we found out that the phone didn't fit in it's case. When we took it off, I realized that the back cover didn't close properly, What greeted me was a battery with a GIGANTIC BULGE. The same thing happened with a Galaxy S2. Both were NEW batteries as well, which was insulting. Thankfully, these batteries were replaceable, so we got another replacement for our S3.

Actually, the real reason my family vows never to buy another Samsung is the lag.

Yeah but mobile technology is much younger than PC tech is, so it's more expensive. Besides, the S6 has a bunch of cutting edge tech, from the display to the RAM to the fingerprint reader, so I'd say the price is justified.

A lot of it has to do with demand though. If people weren't using smart phones and moved on to some other tech, this phone would be a lot cheaper. With R&D added in these phones average at around $200-$300 to make usually. So the markup is large.

Computers dropped in price a lot. I paid 2600.00 for one of the first Pentium models with 4MB of RAM back in 1996, and my newest A8 chipped tower was $499.00 with 8GB of RAM. I think the manufacturers are testing the consumers to see how much we will pay. Look at Winphones...$300.00 for a flagship.

I think android has matured to the point that you can do that. My first android phone was an HTC Aria, and it was functionally obsolete (for my purposes) after 18 months. The replacement HTC Vivid....same thing. I've had my N5 for over a year and notice 0 degradation of performance. My wallet is happy.

Most couple year old flagships are perfectly good phones to use nowadays. OS updates aside, they run fine. Kitkat is a great android version as it is very light on process overhead. That's why a lot of seemingly underpowered hardware can run it just fine. My daughter's 2 1/2 year old nabi 2 just got kitkat and it runs great as does my 2 1/2 year old razr maxx hd. There is no necessity to upgrade really, just desire. It's only going to be better for flagships released right now. That goes for Android and Apple.

I wonder how much more the edge variant will be. If everyone had to choose between the galaxy s6 or edge or the m9 as the last android phone you'll ever have, what would it be? I'm a fan of software keys, removable batteries and expandable storage (currently have a g3 running aosp) and I think I would go with the galaxy s6

Compared to the S5, M8, and Z3.
It was actually cheaper than all 3. The G3 was exactly $600($598 or something) while the M8 and S5 were$660 and Z3 $630.
Those were the T-Mo prices in august when I left Sprint. Z3 wasn't out yet at the time.

Huh? The G3 had a top of line SOC and 3GB of RAM, as well as 32GB of storage. $699 is way too high, as that would likely make the S6 Edge start at $799. You'd be looking at $999 for the 128GB S6 Edge, which is more than the 128GB iPhone 6 Plus.

I bought the G3 a month ago for $400, if you get the right carrier model you have LTE in the states, it's only the international D855 that doesn't work in the states
I picked up the D851 and I have LTE on T-mobile and I could use it on AT&T LTE as well if I wanted.

I never said the G3 was better than the S6, I'm talking about on release date the G3 had the best specs out there, just like the S6 now. my point was just because it has awesome specs doesn't mean it needs to be that much of a premium.